Striker suffering from hamstring strain

He is suffering from a hamstring strain and, with a lengthy journey to consider, boss Ronnie Moore is thinking of leaving Bingham behind when the team sets off on Friday morning, to make sure he is fit for next Tuesday’s home game with Bristol Rovers.

“Rakish is feeling his hamstring –he’s a little bit tight, so we leave him until the last minute because a hamstring problem it’s sometimes not worth taking a risk,’’ admitted Moore.

“And you don’t want to be taking him down there for five hours on the bus and five hours back and we will have a real good look at him and if he misses this one, then he should be OK for Tuesday.’’

Bingham’s absence would mean a likely start for Scott Fenwick at Huish Park.

And Pools are also without another player because of hamstring trouble – right-back Michael Duckworth.

He was hoping to be back this week, but suffered a set-back in training last week.

Moore said: “Ducky has had a knockback, he trained last week, got through it and it ended up taking a corner doing set—plays. In hindsight he probably shouldn’t have done, coming back from a hamstring problem, and he just felt it again – another two or three weeks.’’